I'm glad to see Aaron Stebner started blogging about setup (installer). Before Aaron switched team, he was a QA lead in the VS / .NET setup team, which I'm working for. He was a great resource then. Looks like his posts will be a new valuable source...

The question is simple: given a C++ array (e.g. x as in int x[10] ), how would you get the number of elements in it? An obvious solution is the following macro ( definition 1 ): #define countof( array ) ( sizeof ( array )/ sizeof ( array...